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See also:	Other events of 2016 Timeline of Peruvian history

This article lists events from the year 2016 in Peru.

Incumbents

• President: Ollanta Humala (until 28 July) Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (from 28 July)
• First Vice President: Marisol Espinoza (until 28 July) Martín Vizcarra (from 28 July)
• Second Vice President: Omar Chehade (until 28 July) Mercedes Aráoz (from 28 July)
• Prime Minister: Pedro Cateriano (until 28 July) Fernando Zavala Lombardi (from 28 July)

Events

• 10 April – 2016 Peruvian general election
• 28 July – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took over as president

Publications

Poetry

• Rossella Di Paolo: La silla en el mar (The chair in the sea).

Novel

• Isabel Sabogal: Un Universo dividido (A divided Universe).

Anthology

• Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): Antología general de la traducción en el Perú (General anthology of translation in Peru), volume VII.

Cinema

• Extirpator of Idolatries by Manuel Siles.
• Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero.

Sport

• 5-21 August – Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 29 competitors in 11 sports

Deaths

• 17 February – Eduardo Chirinos, poet (b. 1960).^[1]

• 26 February – Juan Conway McNabb, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925).^[2]

• 6 March – María Rostworowski, historian (b. 1915).^[3]